Fiction. SEXUAL BLOOD is a wild, cybersexual trip through the dark side of America's media-manipulated consciousness. In SEXUAL BLOOD, Amerika tracks the bohemian life of his main character, Mal, an alternative rock musician whose strange encounter with the Medicine Woman causes him to hallucinate a fantasy land populated by all of his former lovers. Mal, hoping to repent for all the emotional damage he's caused in the past, seeks a magic transfusion that will turn him into a compassionate human being: this is when he enters the realm of the Sexual Blood. Charged with a sensual language not seen since Henry Miller, Amerika's alchemical mix of grunge rockers, riot girls, reality hackers, expatriates and guerrilla artists opens up an erotic world lost in a theater of cruelty.
Author City: BOULDER, CO USA
Mark Amerika is an American author and artist. Amerika received his MFA from Brown University. After publishing two cult-novels, The Kafka Chronicles and SEXUAL BLOOD, he turned his energy towards net art. His goal is to expand the concept of writing so that it includes writing in and with new media technologies. He is the founder of the Alt-X Online Network, one of the oldest online art and literary networks. Originally founded as a Gopher site by Amerika in late 1992, it features the art, fiction, poetry, and critical theory of over 500 international contributors. His most recent book is 29 INCHES (Chiasmus Press, 2007).
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“The real counterculture is not gone. Mark Amerika is proof of that.... Here we have a writer who unravels his male heterosexuality as thoroughly as any post-feminist, who’s willing to make disturbing accusations against mainstream culture, while simultaneously wrestling with postmodernity.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Amerika has taken the classic structure of the novel, run it through a postmodern mixer and poured it into a form that most resembles the brain patterns of a video game junkie about to beat his high score.”
—Denver Post
“Fiction for {Amerika} becomes a kind of whirling acid trip, an anti-narrative-as-mind-altering drug that makes you see the universe and language like you’ve never seen them before. The outcome of these breathless heteroglossic strobes is part Leyner-ed Ginsberg, part Acker-ed Burroughs, part some kind of mutant Dexadrined Beckett...”
—American Book Review
“A remarkable book, it held me all the way. Mr. Amerika—if indeed that is his name—has achieved a unique beauty in his most artful marriage of Blake’s lyricism and the iron-in-the-soul of Celine. Are we talking a new and hard-hitting Antonin Artaud? Absolutely. And much more.”
—Terry Southern
“...all of Amerika’s experiences contribute to his disjointed, driving writing style...”
—National Public Radio’s New Letters on the Air
“...contemporary, media-savvy space...”
—Village Voice
“Mark Amerika is showing us that William Burroughs came out of jazz knowledge and that now everything's political—and everything's coming out through the lens of sexuality.”—Kathy Acker